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most eager and who had routed many of the Turks in Asia; Leon Nikerites was guarding Deure with a sufficient force; and he had entrusted to Eustathios Kamytzes the passes around Arbanon. 13.5.2 But Bohemond, from the very first starting-line, as they say, sent out his brother Guy and a certain count called Saracen and Kontopaganos against Kabasilas. And since some of the small towns bordering on Arbanon had already gone over to Bohemond, their inhabitants, knowing precisely the paths of Arbanon, came and explained the entire position of Deure, as it was, and pointed out the hidden paths. At that point Guy, dividing the army in two, himself undertook the battle against Kamytzes from the front, and ordered Kontopaganos and the count called Saracen, guided by the men from Deure, to fall upon Kamytzes from the rear. When this was therefore agreed upon by both, since Guy was fighting from the front, the other counts, falling upon Kamytzes's camp from the rear, wrought a terrible slaughter against him, so that it was not possible for him to fight against all, and seeing his men turned in flight, he himself followed them. And at that time many of the Romans fell, including Karas himself, who from childhood had been received and enrolled by the emperor among his own kinsmen, and Skaliarios, a Turk, who had formerly been one of the renowned leaders in the east, who had deserted to the emperor and received holy baptism. 13.5.3 But such were the events concerning Kamytzes; but Alyates, who was guarding Glabinitza with other picked men, came down to the plain; whether for war or to reconnoiter some position of the place, God would know. By chance, then, armored Celts immediately met him, brave men, and at that time they were divided in two: some (and they were fifty in number) charged at him from the front with a violent rush, letting their reins go completely slack, while the rest followed him from the rear without a sound; for the place was marshy. But Alyates, not perceiving the approach of those from the rear, but fighting against those in front with all his mind and hand, unwittingly drove himself into danger. For those coming from the rear, falling upon him, fought stoutly against him. And a certain count called Kontopaganos, encountering him, struck him with his spear; and immediately he lay breathless on the ground. And not a few of those with him also fell. 13.5.4 When the emperor learned these things, he sent for Kantakouzenos, knowing this man to be most capable in military undertakings. For he had already, as I said, reached the emperor at a place, having been summoned from Laodicea. Since the matters concerning Bohemond allowed no delay, he sent out with him a formidable army and went out of the camp to see him off, as if to urge him on to battle. And having reached the pass called Petra in the local dialect and having waited there for some time, and having equipped him with many calculations and strategic enterprises and having suggested the better course, he sent him toward Glabinitza, encouraging him with good hopes, while he himself returned to Diabolis. And Kantakouzenos, approaching a certain small town on his way, the one called Mylos, immediately constructed all sorts of siege engines and began to besiege the small town. And the Romans shamelessly approached the walls, and some, setting fire, began to burn the gates, while others went up more quickly over the wall to the battlements. 13.5.5 But the Celts encamped on the other side of the river, the one so-called Vouse, perceiving this, ran towards the little fort of Mylos. When the scouts of Kantakouzenos saw them (and they were barbarians

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ἐκθυμότατον καὶ πολλοὺς τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν Τούρκων κατατροπωσάμενον· τὴν ∆εύρην δὲ Λέων ὁ Νικερίτης μετὰ ἀποχρώσης ἐφρούρει δυνάμεως· τῷ δέ γε Εὐσταθίῳ τῷ Καμύτζῃ τὰς περὶ τὸ Ἄρβανον ἀνατεθείκει κλεισούρας. 13.5.2 Ὁ δέ γε Βαϊμοῦντος ἐκ πρώτης, ὅ φασιν, ἀφετηρίας κατὰ τοῦ Καβασίλα τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ Γίδον καὶ κόμητά τινα Σαρακηνὸν καλούμενον καὶ τὸν Κοντοπαγάνον ἐξέπεμ ψεν. Ἐπεὶ δέ τινα τῶν ὁμορούντων τῷ Ἀρβάνῳ πολίχνια προέφθασαν τῷ Βαϊμούντῳ προσχωρῆσαι, οἱ τούτων ἔποι κοι, τὰς τοῦ Ἀρβάνου ἀτραποὺς ἀκριβῶς ἐπιστάμενοι, προσελθόντες πᾶσαν, ὡς εἶχε, τῆς ∆εύρης τὴν θέσιν ἐξη γήσαντο καὶ τὰς λανθανούσας ἀτραποὺς ὑπέδειξαν. Τηνι καῦτα ὁ Γίδος διχῆ διελὼν τὸ στράτευμα αὐτὸς μὲν τὴν κατὰ πρόσωπον μετὰ τοῦ Καμύτζη μάχην ἀνεδέξατο, τὸν δέ γε Κοντοπαγάνον καὶ τὸν Σαρακηνὸν καλούμενον κόμητα παρὰ τῶν ∆ευριωτῶν ὁδηγουμένους ἐξ ὀπισθίων τῷ Καμύ τζῃ ἐπεισπεσεῖν ἐπέταξε. Τούτου γοῦν συνδόξαντος ἀμφοῖν, ἐπεὶ ὁ μὲν Γίδος κατὰ πρόσωπον ἐμάχετο, οἱ δέ γε λοιποὶ κόμητες, τῇ παρεμβολῇ τοῦ Καμύτζη ἐπεισπε σόντες ἀπὸ τῶν μεταφρένων, δεινὸν τὸν φόνον κατ' αὐτοῦ ἀπειργάσαντο, ὡς οὐκ ἐνῆν αὐτῷ πρὸς πάντας μάχεσθαι, τραπέντας τοὺς ὑφ' ἑαυτὸν θεασάμενος συνείπετο τούτοις καὶ αὐτός. Καὶ πίπτουσι μὲν τηνικαῦτα τῶν Ῥωμαίων πολ λοί, καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ Καρᾶς νηπιόθεν τοῖς γνησίοις παρὰ τοῦ αὐτοκράτορος προσληφθεὶς καὶ καταλεγείς, καὶ ὁ Σκαλιά ριος Τοῦρκος τῶν ὀνομαστῶν πάλαι κατὰ τὴν ἕω ἡγεμόνων γεγονώς, αὐτομολήσας τῷ βασιλεῖ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου βαπτίσ ματος τετυχηκώς. 13.5.3 Ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν τὰ κατὰ τὸν Καμύτζην· ὁ δέ γε Ἀλυάτης μετὰ καὶ ἑτέρων λογάδων τὴν Γλαβινίτζαν φυλάττων πρὸς τὴν πεδιάδα κατῆλθεν· εἴτε πρὸς πόλεμον εἴτε καὶ κατασκοπήσων τινὰ τόπου θέσιν, Θεὸς ἂν εἰδείη. Τυχαίως δ' οὖν συναντῶσι τούτῳ παρα χρῆμα κατάφρακτοι Κελτοί, ἄνδρες γενναῖοι καὶ τηνικαῦτα διχῆ διαιρεθέντες οἱ μέν (πεντήκοντα δὲ τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἦσαν) κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ σφοδρᾷ τῇ ῥύμῃ ἵενται ὅλους χαλά σαντες χαλινούς, οἱ δέ γε λοιποὶ ἐξ ὀπισθίων ἀψοφητὶ τούτῳ παρείποντο· ἦν γὰρ ἑλώδης ὁ τόπος. Ὁ δὲ Ἀλυάτης, τῆς τῶν ὄπισθεν μὴ αἰσθόμενος ἐλεύσεως, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν ὅλῃ γνώμῃ ἀγωνιζόμενος καὶ χειρί, λέληθεν ἑαυτὸν εἰς κίνδυνον συνελάσας. Ἐπεισπεσόντες γὰρ τούτῳ οἱ ἐξ ὀπισθίων ἐρχόμενοι καρτερῶς κατ' αὐτοῦ ἐμάχοντο. Συναντήσας δὲ τούτῳ κόμης τις Κοντοπαγάνος καλούμενος βάλλει τοῦτον διὰ τοῦ δόρατος· καὶ παραχρῆμα ἄπνους κατὰ γῆς ἔκειτο. Πίπτουσι δὲ καὶ τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ οὐκ ὀλίγοι. 13.5.4 Ταῦτα μεμαθηκὼς ὁ αὐτοκράτωρ τὸν Καντακουζηνὸν μετεπέμψατο, ἄνδρα τοῦτον γινώσκων περὶ τὰς στρατιωτι κὰς ἐγχειρήσεις ἱκανώτατον. Ἔφθασε γάρ, ὡς ἔφην, κατα λαβεῖν τὸν αὐτοκράτορα εἰς τόπον μετακληθεὶς ἀπὸ Λαοδι κείας. Ἐπεὶ δ' ἀναβολὴν τὰ κατὰ τὸν Βαϊμοῦντον οὐκ εἶχεν, ἀξιόμαχον στρατὸν μετ' αὐτοῦ συνεκπέμπει καὶ τῆς παρεμβολῆς ἔξεισι προεκπέμπων οἷον καὶ πρὸς μάχας ὀτρύνων αὐτόν. Ἐφθακὼς δὲ τὴν κλεισούραν τὴν ἐγχωρίως οὕτω καλουμένην Πέτραν καὶ αὐτοῦ που ἐγκαρτερήσας, πολλοῖς τε λογισμοῖς καὶ στρατηγικοῖς ἐπιχειρήμασιν ἐφο διάσας αὐτὸν καὶ τὰ λῴονα ὑποθέμενος πρὸς Γλαβινίτζαν χρησταῖς ἐλπίσι θαρσύνας ἐκπέμπει, ἐκεῖνος δὲ πρὸς ∆ιά βολιν ἐπανέστρεψεν. Ὁ δὲ Καντακουζηνὸς προσπελάσας ἐν τῷ ἀπέρχεσθαι πολιχνίῳ τινί, τῷ τοῦ Μύλου καλουμένῳ, παραχρῆμα παντοίας κατασκευάσας ἑλεπόλεις ἐπολιόρκει τὸ πολίχνιον. Καὶ οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι ἀναισχύντως τοῖς τείχεσι προσεπέλαζον καὶ οἱ μὲν πῦρ ἐνιέντες τὰς πύλας ἐνεπίμ πρων, οἱ δὲ καὶ διὰ τοῦ τείχους εἰς τὰς ἐπάλξεις θᾶττον ἀνῄεσαν. 13.5.5 Αἰσθόμενοι δ' οἱ πέραθεν τοῦ ποταμοῦ, τοῦ οὑτωσὶ καλουμένου Βούση, αὐλιζόμενοι Κελτοὶ ὡς πρὸς τὸ τοῦ Μύλου καστέλλιον ἔθεον. Οὓς θεασάμενοι οἱ τοῦ Καν τακουζηνοῦ σκοποί (βάρβαροι δὲ